The Effect of Trail Pheromone and Path Confinement on Learning of Complex Routes in the Ant Lasius niger.

Route learning is key to the survival of many central place foragers, such as bees and many ants. For ants which lay pheromone trails, the presence of a trail may act as an important source of information about whether an error has been made. The presence of trail pheromone has been demonstrated to...

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Main Authors: Tomer J Czaczkes, Tobias Weichselgartner, Abel Bernadou, Jürgen Heinze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4784821?pdf=render